Student Compilation Part II
A compilation of the work of our students here at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications. They did this work in their Sports Broadcasting class.
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr
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MIKE SCHAEFER, Husker247
MIKE SCHAEFER He has been the Recruiting Analyst for Husker247 for nine years. His beat is recruiting, but he also covers the Huskers team on a regular basis; he hosts a radio show weekdays on 93.7 The Ticket in Lincoln, and is a regular guest analyst on other radio stations in Nebraska. We have a frank conversation about covering sports in Nebraska and sports journalism.
Oct 24, 2020•47 min
Chris Lamb, Author and College Professor
CHRIS LAMB He is the chair of the Journalism and Public Relations Department at Indiana University, Indianapolis. He is the co-author, with Patrick Washburn, of the new book, Sports Journalism: A History of Glory, Fame, and Technology. [University of Nebraska Press] The conversation includes race in sport and media, and the state of sports journalism.
Oct 19, 2020•32 min
DAMON HACK The Golf Channel, On Race in Sport and the Media
DAMON HACK Is the co-host of "Morning Drive" on The Golf Channel. He is the rare African American reporter and host in golf in a game that is mostly white. He talks about that in context, and talks about race in sport and the media. He is a UCLA grad who got his master's in journalism at Berkeley. He wrote for Sports Illustrated and the New York Times before he moved on to The Golf Channel.
Oct 13, 2020•32 min
Michael Bruntz, Husker247
MICHAEL BRUNTZ Is the Senior Writer for the CBS-owned local sports outlet Husker247, which is a recruiting and reporting site covering the Huskers. He talks about the reporting of recruiting, the incredible interest in the Huskers and how those factors impact his work and the work of the web site.
Oct 09, 2020•30 min
MARK ONWILER, 937 The Ticket, Lincoln
MARK ONWILER is the Operations Manager of the sports radio station KNTK, branded "93.7 The Ticket," an independently owned station in Lincoln, Nebraska. They do about eight hours a day of live radio. Often, the conversation centers around the Huskers, but during the pandemic the hosts broadened the topics. Onwiler talks about all that, as well as access to the Huskers newsmakers and the challenge of finding the right chemistry among hosts.
Sep 27, 2020•39 min
PEDRO GOMEZ, ESPN
PEDRO GOMEZ ESPN reporter covering mostly baseball, since 2003. He was a newspaper reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, Sacramento Bee and Arizona Republic. He spent time with John and his students at the University of Nebraska. He talks about the process of reporting, working at ESPN, working during the pandemic, and how bilingualism has aided his career.
Sep 13, 2020•45 min
Gary Washburn, Boston Globe
GARY WASHBURN Is the national NBA writer for the Boston Globe and has been for the last 11 years. He’s been in the business for more than 20 years, including the early days in the Bay Area. He talks about among other things: working in the ‘NBA Bubble,’ diversity in the journalism business, and the social activism of the NBA and its players.
Sep 07, 2020•35 min
Lon McEachern ESPN World Series of Poker
LON MC EACHERN has been the voice of the WSOP on ESPN since about 2003. He worked events for ESPN over the years from billiards to the X Games. He hit it big when he got a phone call out of the blue to host the new poker series on the worldwide leader in sports. He’s been riding the hot hand ever since.
Aug 22, 2020•33 min
JOSH PETERSON 1620 The Zone, Omaha
JOSH PETERSON is the co-host of Unsportsmanlike Conduct weekday afternoons on 1620 the Zone in Omaha. He talks about working in the pandemic, Husker football, the process of doing four hours of radio five days a week.
Aug 17, 2020•32 min
Chris Heady, Former Omaha World Herald Sports Reporter
CHRIS HEADY Heady spent three years as a sports reporter at the Omaha World Herald, the largest newspaper in Nebraska. He is a graduate of the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications. He says great journalism is still being made, though he is concerned about the loss of outlets and jobs. He speaks fondly of the newspaper, his time in Nebraska and he’s excited about his future in his home state of Kansas. Heady is off to grad school with the long-term goal of becoming a teacher....
Aug 03, 2020•59 min
IRVIN RAMIREZ-BENAVIDES, Feel Good Digital Media
IRVIN RAMIREZ-BENAVIDES Is a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He’s a major in Community Health and Wellness. He has an emerging media career, under the brand Feel Good Digital Media. He produces a number of weekly videos and a podcast, including a video series in Spanish, Café Con Pan . He’s on You Tube, Instagram and Twitter. He says he wants to produce media as a career, and especially wants to serve what is clearly an underserved audience in the Hispanic and Spanish-speaking comm...
Jul 26, 2020•59 min
JOSH SUCHON, Albuquerque Isotopes PxP
Play by Play voice of the Isotopes (Pacific Coast League AAA) since 2013; also the voice of Women's basketball at the University of New Mexico. He has been furloughed by the baseball club. We talk in the week the 2020 minor league season was officially canceled. We also discuss the pandemic in the bigger picture, the dwindling number of African American players in baseball, and the conversations about race in America life.
Jul 05, 2020•35 min
CHRIS SCHMIDT I "27 Hours a Week"
Chris Schmidt I Host of KFOR Morning News and Hail Varsity Radio: Six days a week he hosts news and sports programs in Lincoln, Nebraska, which total 27 hours of live radio.
Jun 28, 2020•16 min
CHRIS SCHMIDT II "Enhancing His Craft"
Chris Schmidt II In 2018 Lincoln radio host added morning news show on KFOR to his afternoon sports show, Hail Varsity Radio on ESPN Lincoln. He does radio six day a week, 27 hours of live radio per week.
Jun 28, 2020•22 min
CHRIS SCHMIDT III "Sports is the Lifeblood"
Chris Schmidt III Since 2008 he has hosted a sports radio show on ESPN Lincoln, Hail Varsity Radio, which he does for two hours a day, six days a week. He’s also a morning host on KFOR Radio. The third of three episodes.
Jun 28, 2020•22 min
Gary Sharp, 1620 The Zone Radio Omaha
GARY SHARP Host of the 10 am -2 pm program, The Gary Sharp Show, on 1620 The Zone sports radio station in Omaha. He talks about the challenges of doing a one-man show, and doing so in the time of pandemic, learning so much from the listeners and his colleagues about race and sport; he talks about his career and those people whose work he most admires.
Jun 21, 2020•52 min
ALEXI LALAS, Fox Sports Soccer Analyst
Soccer analyst for Fox Sports, and host of Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union podcast. He’s been working from home during this pandemic. He talks a bout the state of soccer broadcasting; the Bundesliga back on TV and other leagues are coming back soon. He thinks the 2026 World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada will a seminal event for the American soccer business.
Jun 04, 2020•41 min
DAMON HACK The Golf Channel
Damon Hack has been at the Golf Channel since 2012; he is one of the hosts of the Morning Drive. A sports journalist who worked for Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, Newsday and the Sacramento Bee, Damon has a clear view of where golf sits in the big picture of sports and its return. He talks about the Woods/Manning/Mickelson/Brady golf match; six majors coming up in the next year; the opportunities we've had to spend more time with our loved ones, and much more.
May 24, 2020•30 min
WHAT IF WE HAD NO FOOTBALL IN 2020? PART II
In the second of two episodes, we focus on the questions: What if there is no college football or NFL football in 2020? I put these questions to journalists, broadcasters and academics over the last few weeks. The responses focus on things such as economics, cultural values, responsibility of colleges, the market power of the NFL and much more.
May 18, 2020•1 hr
WHAT IF WE HAD NO FOOTBALL IN 2020? PART I
I posed the question in the last few weeks to academics, reporters and broadcasters. It's really two questions, one for college and one for the NFL. This is the first of two installments in a search to get answers to these questions. We know colleges, universities and the NFL are meeting regularly trying to answer these questions. PART II- next week.
May 13, 2020•1 hr
RICK BARRY Basketball Hall of Famer
RICK BARRY - Former NBA and ABA great is in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. He was the first person ever to lead all three of these entities in scoring – NCAA, NBA and ABA, and did that in a five-year span. After his long professional career, he was a broadcaster. His life and career have been marked by an outspokenness that he says cost him in numerous ways. He shares with us his high points, his opinions and some regrets.
May 01, 2020•1 hr
PAT HUGHES Voice of the Chicago Cubs April 2020
PAT HUGHES is in his 25th year as the radio voice of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, and his 38th consecutive year in Major League Baseball. [That is when the season gets underway] He is the only Cubs radio announcer ever to utter the words, “Cubs win the World Series.” He worked with the legendary Bob Uecker in Milwaukee and Cubs all-time great Ron Santo in Chicago. He battles dysplasia, for which he has had four surgeries on his vocal cords and he talks about that in this conversation....
Apr 26, 2020•43 min
CARRIE PITZER, Small town Nebraska newspaper publisher
CARRIE PITZER started a digital-only news and events enterprise in Neligh, Nebraska in 2014, then she bought her hometown paper the Orchard News three years later. And, in 2019 she bought the Neligh News and Leader. She says their subs have grown because they made a commitment to old-fashioned journalism, youth and sports. They’ve merged five local papers into the two they are now publishing, the Antelope County News and the Knox County News. She’s won awards the last two years from the Nebraska...
Apr 03, 2020•26 min
SCOTT POESE, KBRX Radio, O'Neill, Nebraska
SCOTT POESE Owner and GM, KBRX Radio, O’Neill, Nebraska. He refers to his operation as “small town radio.” They have made some personnel adjustments during this health crisis, and have made some adjustments to their sponsorship arrangements. We talk about the 70+ years of his family’s ownership of the AM/FM combination in a town of about 3,700 people.
Apr 03, 2020•24 min
KEVIN KUGLER, Big Ten Network - Fox Sports - Westwood One
KEVIN KUGLER is play by play announcer on the Big Ten Network, Fox Sports and Westwood One. He is one of most versatile sports announcers in the country. He deeply understands how the COVID-19 crisis has impacted American sports, and the broadcast industry. We have a frank conversation about the situation and where we go from here, and a bit about what’s going on in his career.
Mar 30, 2020•37 min
STEVE BITKER, Sports Anchor, KCBS Radio, San Francisco
STEVE BITKER Has been for nearly 30 years the morning sports anchor at KCBS Radio in San Francisco. He is now, like many others around the country and the world, doing his work at home. He talks about covering sports when games are not being played; how he tries to keep it fresh; the relationships on the radio and how they play for the audience.
Mar 25, 2020•34 min
KATE SCOTT, Play by Play announcer
KATE SCOTT is a play by play announcer based in the Bay Area. She was part of the historic all-woman broadcast of the March 8th NHL game between the Blackhawks/Blue on NBC Sports Network.. She calls games for the Pac-12 Networks and does a podcast for The Athletic . She is not only a woman surviving and thriving in what has traditionally men a business exclusive to men, Kate is openly gay sports broadcaster. We talk about all these things in this episode of Watch the Media....
Mar 24, 2020•34 min
STEVE SCOTT, WCBS NEWSRADIO 880 AM
STEVE SCOTT Is a news anchor at WCBS News Radio 880. He is one of a few people holding down the fort inside the studios in New York, reporting on the COVID 19 outbreak. He says the work has never been more important. It’s the same hours - though some of the schedules have been turned upside down - but the intensity is much higher as New York becomes the epicenter of the virus outbreak. Recorded March 20, 2020.
Mar 21, 2020•29 min
JACK MITCHELL, host of LNK Today w/ Jack and Friends, KLIN Radio
JACK MITCHELL is host of LNK Today with Jack and Friends on KLIN Radio, 1400 AM in Lincoln, Nebraska. He does the three hours a day in the mornings, 6-9 am. He then started hosting a show at 5pm weekdays looking at the developments of COVID-19, the coronavirus. He does that show with the members of the KLIN news staff. He has hosted the radio show for 14 years, and says this is why local radio exists. And, he says local radio needs to remind their advertisers and their communities, “how vital th...
Mar 19, 2020•22 min
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